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Presence governs a character's ability to infleunce others through close personal interaction. This constrats with the large scale theatrics of performance. This ability is equaly adept at intimidating others as it is at gaining their trust.
  
Presence covers leadership and long-term persuasion. In its passive role, it measures one's social impact. In its active role, it represents ability in converting others to your cause, but this is not the short-term inspiration of political oration or battlefield speeches (which is covered by Performance), but the ability to build one-on-one long-term loyalty and wear down such loyalty to others.
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Possible presence stunts may include:
  
* 1E caste/aspect ability for: Zenith, Midnight, Fire, Battles
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• Making threatening eye contact with a beastman warlord, and causing him to lead his warband elsewere.
* 2E caste/aspect ability for: Zenith, Midnight, Fire, Battles
 
* Checking for loyalty (ex2e.110)
 
* Appearing more dangerous than you are (ex2e.157)
 
* Intimate personality based social attacks (ex2e.172)
 
* Forceful counterargument (ex2e.172)
 
* Swaying a specific social unit (ex2e.173)
 
* Compelling behavior in others (ex2e.174)
 
* Written attacks on specific people (ex2e.175)
 
  
== Stunt Examples ==
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• Convincing a Guild recruiter that you, a penniless stranger from a forgien land should be trusted with a huge loan, at no interest.
 
 
* Making threatening eye contact with a beastman warlord, and causing him to lead his warband elsewhere.
 
* Convincing a Guild recruiter that you, a penniless stranger from a foreign land should be trusted with a huge loan, at no interest.
 
 
 
== Charms ==
 
 
 
* [[AbyssalPresence]]
 
* [[DragonBloodedPresence]]
 
* [[SiderealPresence]]
 
* [[SolarPresence]]
 
 
 
== Other Pages ==
 

Revision as of 17:25, 17 October 2005

Presence governs a character's ability to infleunce others through close personal interaction. This constrats with the large scale theatrics of performance. This ability is equaly adept at intimidating others as it is at gaining their trust.

Possible presence stunts may include:

• Making threatening eye contact with a beastman warlord, and causing him to lead his warband elsewere.

• Convincing a Guild recruiter that you, a penniless stranger from a forgien land should be trusted with a huge loan, at no interest.